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a wine rack made out of a reclaimed wooden pallet
Projects

Homemade Mother’s Day gifts Mom will love

Do it yourself and make her proud.

Cabin fever is real problem. But it's one you can solve.
COVID-19

How to avoid cabin fever (from someone who lives in an actual cabin)

Find a project, get some exercise, and stick to a schedule.

Thunderbirds Blue Angels
COVID-19

Everything to know about the fighter jets in the ‘America Strong’ flyovers

Here’s when and where you might see F-16s and other high-performance aircraft in the sky.

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Science

This weird trick can make an onion taste like an apple

Can you pull it off?

the sun emitting some solar flares
Sun

Scientists say the sun is lazy and boring

It’s really a bit of a bum, as far as sun-like stars go.

a bowl of vanilla ice cream made by shaking ingredients in a bag full of ice and salt
Projects

Stay-at-home science project: Make ice cream in a bag

Shake, shake, shake, Senora.

Raspberry Pi camera interchangeable lenses.
Projects

Raspberry Pi’s $50 camera opens the door for awesome DIY photography projects

It even accepts interchangeable lenses.

A still life of books, a quill, old spectacles, and candles
COVID-19

This 17th-century plague diary hits a little too close to home

Rarely do we get such a detailed glimpse into one person’s life during a crisis from so long ago.

air force mortuary
COVID-19

Autopsies provide crucial information for fighting COVID-19

We can learn a lot from the dead.

Dipping shortening-covered hands in ice water
Projects

Stay-at-home science project: Craft handmade blubber

This activity gets a seal of approval.

An abelisaur, a short-snouted predatory dinosaur, rests while several pterosaurs fight over leftovers from a carcass.
Dinosaurs

The Sahara Desert was once flooded with history’s most vicious dinosaurs

Enormous predators prowled the land, rivers, and sky of ancient Morocco.

An X-ray and optical composite image of a detonating star.
Moons

Ancient supernovas may have pierced moon rocks with star shrapnel

Apollo souvenirs just might have recorded the death throes of local stars.

a biofilm growing in a lab
Health

Teams of bacteria have working memories remarkably like ours

This finding illuminates an unexpected connection between the abilities of simple organisms and complex neurons in the human brain.

food scale
COVID-19

Now is the time to start tracking your food

Social distancing provides the perfect opportunity to begin monitoring what you consume.

oil barrels petro canada
Energy

The environment won’t be helped by oil producers declaring bankruptcy

It may just lead to more consumption and fewer investments in renewables.

a process photo of the egg-in-bottle experiment, from the egg on a glass bottle, to an egg being pushed (not sucked) into the bottle by fire from matches, to the result
Projects

Stay-at-home science project: Use fire to push an egg into a bottle

Humpty Dumpty’s lucky he only fell off a wall.

A weather radar station in South Dakota with a thunderstorm in the background
COVID-19

The unexpected way COVID-19 is screwing up weather reports

Reports from commercial flight crews are an important part of weather validation.

an american flag face mask on a black background
COVID-19

COVID-19 cases surge past 1 million in the US just as some states start reopening

Meanwhile, CDC reports show that the death count might be largely under reported.

a boy with his mouth open
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

You can totally sprain your teeth (and you’ve probably done it before)

A crunchy surprise.

people's faces
COVID-19

Why we evolved to feel empathy during pandemics and other disasters

Empathy is a complex trait that could massively benefit or harm individuals.